Sherry Turkle
McCain’s in-hearing poker game a sign of deepening technological creep
John McCain wasn’t “all-in” at Wednesday’s Senate Foreign Relation Committee meeting on Syria, or at least that’s what one reporter’s photo of him playing iPhone poker suggested to critics who expected him to pay better attention.
Lonely In A Digital Age
Many of us spend hours with our smartphones and computers, texting and emailing. We peruse social networking sites, updating our followers several times a day on our moods and thoughts. In many ways, it seems we have greater safeguards against loneliness than we ever have. But Professor Sherry Turkle wonders if, in the age of digital […]
What Compels Us to Predict an Unknowable Future?
Anticipating the future is a classic (and possibly uniquely) human pastime. For as long as humans have kept records of the past, we have also tried to predict our future…and in so doing, control our destiny. Why do we cling to these predictions? The end of the world, the end of humanity, even our future […]